Chris Stillwell
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Chris Stillwell is the bassist
for the band The Greyboy Allstars
. He was born to David and Cheryle Stillwell on June 4, 1966 in Seattle, Washington. The family moved to San Diego when Chris was about 6 months old. He stole his first guitar from his older sister's closet and didn't put it down for anything. He acquired an old telephone transcriber which he was able to slow the pitch down to his favorite guitarists' solos: Jimmy Page
, Jeff Beck
, and Django Reinhardt
. Soon he was playing in neighborhood bands on bass, doing Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Zeppelin tunes. After reading interviews of said artists, he was turned on to blues, folk, jazz, Indian music, etc. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin bassist) kept mentioning the name James Jamerson. Thus started Chris' study of R&B, Soul, and Funk bass styles. James Brown was always in the mix as well.
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
for the band The Greyboy Allstars
The Greyboy Allstars
The Greyboy Allstars are a San Diego funk and jazz group created in the early 1990s. The group began as collaboration of DJ Greyboy with Karl Denson during weekly shows at the Green Circle Bar in San Diego and on the DJ Greyboy albums Home Cooking and Freestylin’...
. He was born to David and Cheryle Stillwell on June 4, 1966 in Seattle, Washington. The family moved to San Diego when Chris was about 6 months old. He stole his first guitar from his older sister's closet and didn't put it down for anything. He acquired an old telephone transcriber which he was able to slow the pitch down to his favorite guitarists' solos: Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page
James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Jimmy Page...
, Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
, and Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
. Soon he was playing in neighborhood bands on bass, doing Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Zeppelin tunes. After reading interviews of said artists, he was turned on to blues, folk, jazz, Indian music, etc. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin bassist) kept mentioning the name James Jamerson. Thus started Chris' study of R&B, Soul, and Funk bass styles. James Brown was always in the mix as well.